In England, a team of researchers digging among mass burial sites has come across the DNA of the bacteria that caused the Bubonic plague in some human remains dating back.
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Armed with DNA sequencers and powerful computational tools, archaeogeneticists are turning their attention towards ancient microbes to give bacteria their due in human history. Armed with DNA sequencers and powerful computational tools, archaeogeneticists are turning their attention towards ancient microbes to give bacteria their due in human history.
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